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Claude Hulbert is a Actor British born on 23 december 1900 at Fulham (United-kingdom)
Claude Noel Hulbert (25 December 1900 – 23 January 1964) was a British comic actor. He was the younger brother of Jack Hulbert. Like his brother, he was Cambridge educated and was a member of the Footlights comedy club as an undergraduate.
Hulbert began his professional career on the English stage. His first theatrical credit was in the London revue Fantasia in 1921. In 1924, he was quite successful in the George Grossmith-Guy Bolton musical comedy Primrose, which led to a string of musical comedy roles for him from 1925 to the 1930s, including Sunny, Oh Kay, Song of the Sea and Follow a Star. Hulbert also was a hit on radio, thanks to his spontaneous manner of delivery, along with his nervous excitability and hilarious stuttering. In 1939, he returned to the London stage in the farce, Worth a Million. Subsequently he was seen in Cole Porter's Panama Hattie (1943) and as the Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz (1946), In the 1950s, he appeared in numerous farces and in repertory theatre. In 1959, he made quite a splash as Lord Plynne in Frederick Lonsdale's Let Them Eat Cake
Although popular, his motion picture career was less successful than his brother's. He began by supporting the Aldwych farceurs before being handed his first lead in a weak B-film with Renee Houston and Binnie Barnes, Their Night Out (1933). His most successful solo film of the mid-1930s being Hello Sweetheart (1935), like most of Hulbert's starring comedies, however, its ambition was strictly small-scale; it seemed that British studios simply didn't see him as a major star. His flagging career was helped with Wolf's Clothing (1936), which starred him as a dithering diplomat, and Honeymoon-Merry-Go-Round (1940), where he played a bumbling bridegroom who unintentionally becomes an ice-hockey star.
He became a very capable partner for Will Hay after the comedian decided he wanted to do without his famous "stooges", Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt. Hay's two films with Hulbert, The Ghost of St Michael's (1941) and My Learned Friend (1943), were the most successful of his later vehicles. Hulbert's film appearances, though, became scarcer as the 1940s wore on.
Hulbert died in a hospital in Sydney, Australia, whilst ashore from a world cruise with his family.
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Birth name Claude Noel Hulbert
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 23 december 1900 at Fulham (United-kingdom)
Death 11 january 1964 (at 63 years) at Sydney (Australie)
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 23 december 1900 at Fulham (United-kingdom)
Death 11 january 1964 (at 63 years) at Sydney (Australie)
Hulbert began his professional career on the English stage. His first theatrical credit was in the London revue Fantasia in 1921. In 1924, he was quite successful in the George Grossmith-Guy Bolton musical comedy Primrose, which led to a string of musical comedy roles for him from 1925 to the 1930s, including Sunny, Oh Kay, Song of the Sea and Follow a Star. Hulbert also was a hit on radio, thanks to his spontaneous manner of delivery, along with his nervous excitability and hilarious stuttering. In 1939, he returned to the London stage in the farce, Worth a Million. Subsequently he was seen in Cole Porter's Panama Hattie (1943) and as the Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz (1946), In the 1950s, he appeared in numerous farces and in repertory theatre. In 1959, he made quite a splash as Lord Plynne in Frederick Lonsdale's Let Them Eat Cake
Although popular, his motion picture career was less successful than his brother's. He began by supporting the Aldwych farceurs before being handed his first lead in a weak B-film with Renee Houston and Binnie Barnes, Their Night Out (1933). His most successful solo film of the mid-1930s being Hello Sweetheart (1935), like most of Hulbert's starring comedies, however, its ambition was strictly small-scale; it seemed that British studios simply didn't see him as a major star. His flagging career was helped with Wolf's Clothing (1936), which starred him as a dithering diplomat, and Honeymoon-Merry-Go-Round (1940), where he played a bumbling bridegroom who unintentionally becomes an ice-hockey star.
He became a very capable partner for Will Hay after the comedian decided he wanted to do without his famous "stooges", Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt. Hay's two films with Hulbert, The Ghost of St Michael's (1941) and My Learned Friend (1943), were the most successful of his later vehicles. Hulbert's film appearances, though, became scarcer as the 1940s wore on.
Hulbert died in a hospital in Sydney, Australia, whilst ashore from a world cruise with his family.
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Fun at St. Fanny's (1955)
, 1h20Directed by Maurice Elvey
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Fred Emney, Cardew Robinson, Vera Day, Gerald Campion, Miriam Karlin, Claude Hulbert
Roles Mr. Winkle
Rating50%
Something in the City (1950)
, 1h16Directed by Maclean Rogers
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Richard Hearne, Garry Marsh, Ellen Pollock, Bill Shine, Dora Bryan, Molly Weir
Roles Drunk Art buyer
Rating60%
Mr Ningle has been living a lie for seven years by pretending to still be commuting to his financial services job in the City of London from which he had been sacked. Every day he journeys in and changes into the costume of his alter ego an artist who sells painting in Trafalgar Square. His life is thrown into turmoil when his dual personality is nearly discovered by the father of his daughter's fiancée, and a series of misunderstandings lead to the mistaken belief that Ningle has been murdered by "Arty the artist" leading to a massive manhunt.
Cardboard Cavalier (1949)
Directed by Walter Forde
Genres Comedy
Actors Margaret Lockwood, Jerry Desmonde, Brian Worth, Mary Clare, Anthony Hulme, born Harry Idris Miller, Miles Malleson
Roles Sylvester Clutterbuck
Rating62%
, 1h25Directed by Vernon Sewell
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Fantastic, Comedy, Fantasy
Themes Ghost films
Actors Robert Morley, Felix Aylmer, Yvonne Arnaud, Claude Hulbert, Abraham Sofaer, Ernest Thesiger
Roles Merryweather
Rating58%
Two 18th century officers, General Burlap (Morley) and Colonel Kelsoe (Aylmer), are desperate to prevent war, so they hatch a plan to capture the Duke of Marlborough and hold him prisoner until the threat of hostilities passes. Unfortunately, while testing the efficacy of the contraption they have designed to entrap the duke, they manage to kill themselves. Their stupidity incurs the wrath of Queen Anne in the afterlife, and as punishment they are condemned to haunt the Berkeley Square house until such time as a British monarch crosses the threshold of the property.
London Town (1946)
, 2h6Directed by Wesley Ruggles
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Petula Clark, Greta Gynt, Kay Kendall, Sonnie Hale, Tessie O'Shea, Claude Hulbert
Roles Belgrave, Charlie's dresser
Rating58%
The screenplay by Sig Herzig, Val Guest, and Elliot Paul, based on a story by director Wesley Ruggles, revolves around comedian Jerry Sanford (Sid Field), who arrives in London believing he has been hired as the star of a major stage production, when in fact he's merely an understudy. Thanks to his daughter Peggy (Petula Clark, already a screen veteran at age fourteen), who sabotages the revue's star Charlie de Haven (Sonnie Hale), he finally gets his big break. The premise allows for a variety of musical numbers and comedy sketches performed by, among others, Kay Kendall in her film debut and Tessie O'Shea.
My Learned Friend (1943)
, 1h14Directed by Basil Dearden, Will Hay
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Comedy thriller, Crime
Actors Will Hay, Ronald Shiner, Charles Victor, Claude Hulbert, Eddie Phillips, Mervyn Johns
Roles Claude Babbington
Rating69%
This comedy sees Will Hay playing a seedy lawyer, who finds himself marked for assassination by a forger whom he previously defended unsuccessfully. He teams up with an incompetent solicitor to try to prevent the deaths of others involved.
The Dummy Talks (1943)
Genres Comedy, Crime
Actors Jack Warner, Jack Warner, Claude Hulbert, Charles Carson, G. H. Mulcaster, Patricia Hayes
Roles Victor
Rating51%
A murder takes place during a theatre variety performance.
The Ghost of St. Michael's (1941)
, 1h22Directed by Marcel Varnel
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors Will Hay, Claude Hulbert, Charles Hawtrey, John Laurie, Raymond Huntley, Felix Aylmer
Roles Hilary Tisdaile
Rating66%
An ineffectual science teacher William Lamb (Will Hay) is hired by a school recently transferred because of World War II to the remote Dunbain Castle on the Isle of Skye, Scotland. Posing as (amongst many other things) an Old Etonian, Lamb settles down into his new surroundings and becomes acquainted with the various local Scottish traditions and legends that abound and strikes up a friendship with one of the other masters, Hilary Teasdale (Claude Hulbert).
Olympic Honeymoon (1940)
Directed by Alfred J. Goulding
Genres Comedy
Actors Claude Hulbert, Monty Banks, Sally Gray
Roles Bob Bennett
Sailors Three (1940)
, 1h26Directed by Walter Forde
Origin United-kingdom
Genres War, Comedy
Actors Tommy Trinder, Claude Hulbert, Carla Lehmann, Michael Wilding, James Hayter, Henry Hewitt
Roles Llewellyn Davies, 'The Admiral'
Rating54%
Three WWII British sailors on a drunken spree in a Brazilian neutral port mistake a German ship for their own and climb aboard. It turns out to be a pocket battleship, the Ludendorff, and to the credit of the Royal Navy, the trio manages to capture the ship and all the Germans on board.
The Viper (1938)
, 1h15Directed by Roy William Neill
Origin United-kingdom
Actors Claude Hulbert, Hal Walters, Lesley Brook, Reginald Purdell
Roles Cedric Gull
His Lordship Regrets (1938)
Directed by Maclean Rogers
Genres Comedy
Actors Claude Hulbert, Winifred Shotter, Gina Malo, Aubrey Mallalieu, Eve Gray, Athole Stewart
Roles Lord Cavender
Rating49%
Many Tanks Mr. Atkins (1938)
Directed by Roy William Neill
Actors Claude Hulbert, Reginald Purdell, Davy Burnaby, Frederick Burtwell, Jack Melford, Arthur Hambling
Roles Claude Fishlock
Simply Terrific (1938)
, 1h12Directed by Roy William Neill
Origin United-kingdom
Actors Claude Hulbert, Reginald Purdell, Patricia Medina
Roles Rodney Cherridew
The Vulture (1937)
, 1h7Directed by Ralph Ince
Origin United-kingdom
Actors Claude Hulbert, Hal Walters, Lesley Brook, George Merritt, Frederick Burtwell
Roles Cedric Gull
Hopeless but eager would-be private detective Cedric Gull (Hulbert) has just obtained a diploma from a backstreet 'School of Detection' and is keen to put his new qualification to good use. Fortuitously, he happens to stumble across a crime scene at the office of a diamond merchant, who has just been robbed and assaulted and is being tended by his secretary Sylvia (Brook). The police arrive on the scene, but despite Cedric's proud boasts about his sleuthing qualifications, they decline his kind offers of help.